I've had a heck of time getting in here, and I can't get into the site to get the address to send a donation. Could someone please post it here. Thanks.

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), December 31, 1999

Answers

bardou,

(The new server is still a bit unstable.... they're tweaking).

Phillip really appreciates the response people have had to donating to his charity, so he in turn will match us in funds and get a new server for his MIT server farm.

For those who missed it (and the forum), while the forum was inaccessible, due to robot/spider attacks, Phillip left us several messages. One final one was...

If you want to see the forums back, prove it!

Surf over to https:// db.photo.net/shoppe/ (ignore the warning boxes about the MIT certificate authority not being recognized; your credit card is transmitted securely) and make a tax-deductible donation to SARA Sanctuary, a no-kill animal shelter. They will get 100% of your money. If the Y2K users collectively come through with at least $7,500 (so far we have about $1,500 committed), I'll pay for some new dual- Pentium Linux boxes out of my own pocket.

I dont know what the count and amount is today, but I already made my donation. I also know Ed Yourdon made a good sized one too, as have many, many regulars.

For the credit/debit card challenged... donations can be mailed to SARA Sanctuary 1050 Rawhide Road Seguin, TX 78155. Put a note in to credit Philip Greenspun and ArsDigita for the donation.

It's our way of saying "THANK YOU PHIL!" for two years of free forum service, and it "really" motivated him to pull in help on a holiday week to get us up and running on back-up servers, until we can move to more permanent machines, that aren't on their last legs.

Also, he is going to make a "zip" copy of the forum archives that people can download if they want a copy. More on that later.

Thank you... to the Forum Posters... as well... for showing Phillip we appreciate him and MIT!!!

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), December 31, 1999.